Scott Brown (broadcaster)
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Scott Brown is a Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 television producer.

Brown, a former local radio presenter, was a continuity announcer for Grampian Television
Grampian Television
Grampian Television is the ITV franchisee for the North and North East of Scotland. Its coverage area includes the Scottish Highlands , Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee and parts of north Fife...

 (now STV North) during the mid - late 1990s. He also presented various regional programmes including Grampian Headlines regional news bulletins, the BAFTA-nominated children's programme Wize Up alongside announcing colleagues Rachael Robertson
Rachael Robertson
Rachael Robertson is a former British television continuity announcer and presenter.Robertson began her career with Grampian Television in the mid 1990s as a staff announcer and newsreader for Grampian Headlines, replacing Tracey Crawford, who had left to join Granada...

 and Kate Fraser
Kate Fraser
Kate Fraser is a former continuity announcer for Grampian Television and Scottish Television.She joined Grampian in 1993 and remained until the station's presentation department closed in June 1998...

 and the antiques show Under The Hammer alongside Fiona Armstrong
Fiona Armstrong
Fiona Armstrong, Lady MacGregor of MacGregor is a freelance Scottish television journalist.-Early life and career:Armstrong was born in Preston, Lancashire. As a child she lived for ten years in Nigeria, where her father was in the colonial service. She became Lady MacGregor of MacGregor when she...

 - a programme he continued to present after Grampian's in-house presentation department was closed during the summer of 1998.

In March 1999, Brown teamed up with Bill Shand, a resources supervisor and studio director for STV North, to form Midas Multimedia, an Aberdeen-based company specialising in television & video production and media training. The company's productions have included The Scottish Golf Show
The Scottish Golf Show
The Scottish Golf Show is a Scottish television series, which aired on Scottish TV and Grampian TV . The programme captures the imagination of golfers and non-golfers alike and explores the experience that is Scotland and the true spirit of golf in a blend of humour, nostalgia, science, history,...

(which Brown produced and directed) for Grampian TV, Duan Nollaig (a Scots Gaelic-language Christmas special based on the double CD of the same name by Mod Gold Medallist Fiona Mackenzie
Fiona Mackenzie
Fiona J Mackenzie is a Gaelic singer from Dingwall in Scotland, and has toured and performed throughout Europe and North America. In 2005 she won the An Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medal at the Royal National Mod in Stornoway.-Career:...

) for STV and golf-related features for CNBC Europe
CNBC Europe
CNBC Europe is a business and financial news television channel, the pan-European sister station of CNBC. The network is owned and operated by NBC Universal and headquartered in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones...

. In 2008, the company produced a special documentary (directed by Brown) on Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump, Sr. is an American business magnate, television personality and author. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Trump's extravagant lifestyle, outspoken manner and role on the NBC reality show The Apprentice have...

's plans to build a golf course in Aberdeenshire for BBC Alba.

Brown runs Midas Multimedia alongside former Grampian/BBC Scotland presenter & producer Patricia Macleod.

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